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1 total messages Started by Dan VanArsdale Fri, 12 Jan 1996 00:00
Romance Game Chain
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Author: Dan VanArsdale
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 00:00
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I am doing research on chain letters, and have 
a  collection of over 120 dated examples.
I am especially interested in the kind that depend
on superstition to spread around.  Recently a teacher
from California sent me a note she intercepted that
starts:

      To a girl in school
      This is a romance game from 1812.  Copy this letter
      word by word within 4 days.  Give it to 8 people (no guys).
      ........  


And so on,  with a ceremony to be done on the fourth day that
is supposed to get a boy you like to ask you out.

If anyone has a copy of something like this, I would like to get it E-mail -
the exact words (spelling errors, lines as written, everything
exactly as you received it).  I also need a date you received
it, where, and how old the people were who circulated it.

If you help me with this, when I have tracked this down, maybe
found out how many years it has really been going around, I
will send you a write-up.  I have one other example from about
15 years ago that asked for only 4 copies.  I would also like to 
get any other chain letters, especially older datable "good luck"
type letters.  Will send stamped envelop for these.

Dan VanArsdale,  barnowl@rain.org
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